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    My bard/wizard is in front of a guy. I cast Charm Person on that guy, and his saving throw succeeds. Now, if he isn't extremely stupid, he's just understood that I cast a spell on him, and it didn't work. Won't that make him extremely angry against me? If so, a failed Charm Person will almost always result in the contrary effect.


    Another scenario. My bard is in front of a wizard. I cast Charm Person, and the saving throw fails. The wizard is Charmed, but he rolls a Spellcraft check and understands that I cast Charm Person. His aptitude should be friendly toward me, but he knows that is because of the spell, and therefore has really good reason to be angry against me and to avoid me. How does the spell work in this case?

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    Yep. Being obvious with Charm Person tends to be a bad idea.

    Obviously, the Wizard tells himself, your friend cast Charm Person on you because it was the best thing for you in the circumstances. After all, he's your friend, right? He wouldn't do anything to harm you.
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    #1. Charm Person isn't a good idea.

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    In the first scenario unless they have spellcraft they know you've cast a spell, but they don't know what. Pretty easy to convince them it was a mental buff spell.
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    "I cast you a mental buff spell just because I really like you even if we've never met before, not a spell to convince you to give me that item for free..."

    Is that a -50 to Bluff, or just a -40?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pigkappa View Post
    "I cast you a mental buff spell just because I really like you even if we've never met before, not a spell to convince you to give me that item for free..."

    Is that a -50 to Bluff, or just a -40?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Pigkappa View Post
    "I cast you a mental buff spell just because I really like you even if we've never met before, not a spell to convince you to give me that item for free..."

    Is that a -50 to Bluff, or just a -40?
    I think you get this response.

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    Bluff opposed by both Spellcraft and Sense Motive, I'm afraid...
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    "Whoa, thanks for charming me. I'm worried I'd have been too quick to distrust you otherwise, and that would be a terrible thing to happen with a guy as nice as you."

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    I think you get this response.

    Qui-Gon: Right, which one of you is in charge?
    Droid: State your business.
    Qui-Gon: Let these men go. We're taking them to Croissant.
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    Droid: What is your serial number?
    Qui-Gon: It's... uh... I roll for Bluff!
    GM: There aren't enough dice in the world. They draw their weapons.
    I remember a story about a guy who tried to use a Bluff check to speak Elvish. He ended up telling an elven border guard that he had come to eat their children or something.
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    Still spell is excellent for this. Your words just suddenly seem unnaturally attractive.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Manave_E_Sulanul View Post
    Still spell is excellent for this. Your words just suddenly seem unnaturally attractive.
    Unfortunately, when you make a saving throw, you know someone tried to do something to do.
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    Man, this is just one of those things you see and realize, "I live in a weird and banal future."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yuki_Akuma View Post
    Obviously, the Wizard tells himself, your friend cast Charm Person on you because it was the best thing for you in the circumstances. After all, he's your friend, right? He wouldn't do anything to harm you.
    Eerie, yet accurate; this is exactly how I would play it.

    Quote Originally Posted by Manave_E_Sulanul View Post
    Still spell is excellent for this. Your words just suddenly seem unnaturally attractive.
    Unless you also have silent spell, that feat that lets you hide the verbal components of spells in normal speech, or the skill trick that hides them both, your target will still notice you slipping "An Xen Ex!" or "Kal Vas Mani!" into regular conversation.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pigkappa View Post
    "I cast you a mental buff spell just because I really like you even if we've never met before, not a spell to convince you to give me that item for free..."

    Is that a -50 to Bluff, or just a -40?

    In MMORPG's that tends to be how things work -_-
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    They took an established work and said they fixed it but didn't actually fix it and yet still made money off from it.

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    If a wizard succeeded on his spellcraft to identify a charm person being cast on him, wouldn't he try to avoid and have the spell dispelled somehow - he might like them but he knows of the spell and its exact effects plus he has a high intelligence.

    Finally why would you do it right in front of the target, charm person may only have a range of close but that is still at least 30 feet; do it from outside the shop before you come in, across the bar before you approach then its just a random person muttering to themselves and you can excuse looking at them weird as "eh its you i was trying to figure out if it was" or " do i know you ive been trying to figure out if i know you for ..."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Optimystik View Post
    Eerie, yet accurate; this is exactly how I would play it.



    Unless you also have silent spell, that feat that lets you hide the verbal components of spells in normal speech, or the skill trick that hides them both, your target will still notice you slipping "An Xen Ex!" or "Kal Vas Mani!" into regular conversation.
    Conceal Spellcasting skill trick. "Hello there, barkeep, I say isn't the weather just *coughcharmpersoncough* wonderful?"
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    Conceal Spellcasting skill trick.
    (a) That's the one I mentioned;
    (b) Limited uses per day, so be careful who you discuss the weather with.

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    Based on casting rules, IIRC: You see the caster speak some unintelligible words and make some complex gestures, then you feel an unknown malevolant force in your head but you manage to will it away.

    Yeah, the caster isn't exactly looking like a saint here. Either you need some crazy bluff action and someone who has never seen a caster in their life, or it's time to fight.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Optimystik View Post
    (a) That's the one I mentioned;
    (b) Limited uses per day, so be careful who you discuss the weather with.
    1/encounter, IIRC.

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    1/encounter, IIRC.
    Out of combat, about 1/five minutes. So it is limited uses per day.

    288 uses per day.
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    If your spell fails, then it's Plan B. You do have a Plan B, right? Someone suggested taking advantage of the spell's range. Do that.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yuki_Akuma View Post
    Out of combat, about 1/five minutes. So it is limited uses per day.

    288 uses per day.
    Charm Person is an attack, making it the "encounter" ruling rather than the "minute" ruling. Better hope you don't have to charm two people in the same room.

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    If your spell fails, then it's Plan B. You do have a Plan B, right? Someone suggested taking advantage of the spell's range. Do that.
    Isn't plan B always kill everyone?
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    Quote Originally Posted by pffh View Post
    Isn't plan B always kill everyone?
    ???

    I thought that was the main objective.

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    One could just use slight of hand to conceal the spellcasting without the trick.

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    Quote Originally Posted by olentu View Post
    One could just use slight of hand to conceal the spellcasting without the trick.
    But then you're still firmly speaking weird arcane gibberish halfway through the conversation.
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    But then you're still firmly speaking weird arcane gibberish halfway through the conversation.
    Claim it's a condition. If they question you on it, be hurt and offended. People have a desire to please, so if you act hurt, they're likely to drop it.

    Unless, y'know, the DM doesn't want them to.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Deth Muncher View Post
    Claim it's a condition. If they question you on it, be hurt and offended. People have a desire to please, so if you act hurt, they're likely to drop it.

    Unless, y'know, the DM doesn't want them to.
    You can have glibness up so that they believe you.

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    I Would ask how they knew that you cast a spell on them and not on yourself, but apparently you feel "a malevolent force you will away" or something...

    My favorite is stilled + silenced spell... you look "really hard" at him and thats all it takes to cast the spell.
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    Quote Originally Posted by taltamir View Post
    I Would ask how they knew that you cast a spell on them and not on yourself, but apparently you feel "a malevolent force you will away" or something...

    My favorite is stilled + silenced spell... you look "really hard" at him and thats all it takes to cast the spell.
    Actually, you basically just stare off into space when you cast a stilled-silent spell with no material components. Which is why you still provoke an AoO.
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